So much for the images being in order.

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I like the HMI. That's super cool.

how did you support gpu?

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The GPU is vertical. The PCI slot has the tab at the back so that holds it in place, there are multiple notches in the PCIE slot so it obviously cant just slide out. That said the PCIE is all thats holding the GPU. I've had my 980 like that for nearly 2 years. No problem. the 1070ti in the photo has been running like that on my first wall mount for about a year. Again no problem.

If I was to swap in something like an EVGA FTW3 thats heavy then I would add something to support it but for this thing, its not needed.

Current hobby room. No change in hardware since last post though.

Ryzen 1600X, Asus 1080 Ti Turbo, 16gb ram
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3 year necro post.

Just installed a 4080 because my wife wants my 3070 to replace her 1650 Super. Never again shall frame drop be my demise - getting my ass handed to me in Fortnite by 8 year olds will have to come the old fashioned way.

So you get to watch your KD drop in 4k at 150fps :D

Back in december i bought a gpu.. first went with a 6950... amd. nothing but issues.. fresh windows, fresh drivers.. trash. Swapped to a 7900xl, about as bad. swapped it out for a 7900xlx.. again garbage drivers. Went to the store for one final time and got a 4080. Not a single crash since.

Somewhat pertinent reply: I spent $$$ to build a gaming desktop this year and all it does is run Zwift. But it runs it at +200 fps.

It also has the fastest wireless internet connection of anything in the house at 600 mbps. My laptop only gets 400. I love watching it download the Nvidia driver updates.

Just upgraded my 18 year old everything+ PC from a 2nd gen core i5 to a 12th gen. New processor, motherboard, 32gb ram, processor heatsink/fan, and for shits and giggles, added an 512GB m.2 drive as a DaVinci Resolve cache. $503 out the door should get me another 8-10 years.

The 2nd gen processor just wasn't cutting it anymore while trying to edit 4k video. I figure here in about 3-4 years I'll want to upgrade my 1070 to whichever video card is about two generations old at the time.

The jump from Ryzen 1800x to 5800x for editing 4k video is unbelievably substantial. It almost feels like a 10 year jump instead of a 5. I can't imagine how an intel second gen to 12th jump feels...

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Even worse is that I I only have a 1440p monitor, so I don't play anything in 4K, LOL. Of course Fortnite is apparently really poorly optimized with their latest update (something to do with texture loading and shaders), and I have been getting frame drops out the wazoo that I'm not experiencing in anything else. 200+ FPS dropping to low double digits at random, and settings quality has no impact. Tried every trick in the book short of a fresh windows install to get it to work, no dice. My wife is now experiencing the same with the 3070 card. CPU nowhere near 100% utilization, so not a bottleneck issue.

I really hate Nvidia as a company and was so tempted to get the 7900 XTX, but everyone who had one was asking over MSRP, and I had read about all the driver problems and decided against it.

On the processor front, I went from a very old i5 setup to an 11700F during COVID, and the difference was wild.

I tried man, i tried supporting the little guy.. tried 3 different AMD cards.. the drivers are just trash. constant crashes, constant blue screens, VR headset using the wrong FOV again because of bad drivers.. nvidia has shadowplay.. amd has relive.. as soon as you turn on relive the gpu drivers crash within an hour.. just completely unstable.

Geez. You'd have really thought they'd have taken a genuine stab at driver/reliability improvements with Nvidia on the ropes. Appreciate you reinforcing that I made the right call!

A year ago I made the jump from 2nd gen i5 to a 10th gen i9. Both were freebies. The computer has gotten upgrades over the years (3080 / SSD / ect) but I couldn't believe how much performance I had left on the table. Nothing ever *seemed* slow... until I had a real CPU. Never again. It's a three year cycle now for me.